[6][7][8][9][10] Hatfield in 1831 (as its own parish), was described as in the Hundred of Wolphy, 7 miles (11 km) north-west from Bromyard, and containing 155 inhabitants.

Ecclesiastical parish living was a perpetual curacy in the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Hereford, and supported by a yearly private benefaction of £10 and a royal bounty of £600, and under the patronage of Sir John Geers Cotterell, 1st Baronet.

Significant residences in the parish included The Old Court which is described as a "picturesque mansion in Elizabethan style - a portion of it is in ruins".

Hatfield Court, the seat of Thomas Ashton, the builder and supporter of the 1852 built parish free school for the poor, was a "modern substantial villa; the view from the hill on which it stands, is one of the most beautiful and extensive in this county"; the house, "mantled with venerable ivy", was formerly the residence of the Geers and was at the time attached to a farmhouse.

Parish area at the time was 1,528 acres (618 hectares), its soil 'clayey', with chief landowners that included the ironmaster and MP, Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet.

St Leonard's chancel, which had been restored in 1878 for £250, is described as containing "distinct traces of Saxon work, but... rebuilt in Early English and later styles", and is listed with a stained glass window of Munich glass dedicated to Thomas Ashton of Middleton, Lancashire, who had lived at Hatfield Court and who died in 1869.

Remains of a Saxon doorway was noted in the north wall of the nave, while the chancel had been restored in 1878 by the trustees of the Hatfield estate.

[16][17] One of the chief landowners in the 1880s was Sir Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baronet (1858 to 1899), MP, of Glanusk Park, Crickhowell in Brecon, Wales.

Parish land was of clay over a subsoil of rock, on which were grown crops of wheat, oats, beans, hops, fruit, with some pasture.

Previously extra pariochial, it was now its own civil parish in the Union, electoral and county court districts, and petty sessional division of Leominster.

Occupations included the parish clerk, a farm bailiff to Hatfield Court, an estate carpenter, a coal company agent, the station master of Fencote Railway station, nine to ten farmers, a blacksmith, and a grocer who was also a tea dealer, saddler, harness maker, shoe repairer and tobacconist.

The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland and coppices, streams, isolated and dispersed businesses and residential properties, and the nucleated settlement of Hatfield.

The first is a minor road which runs from the south-west at Pudleston, through Hatfield, and then north-east out of the parish into, and forming part of the boundary with, Hampton Charles.

The most northerly, 850 yards (800 m) in length, flows north at the north-east and forms the parish boundary with Hampton Charles.

At 250 yards (200 m) south from the church is a 1.5 miles (2 km) stream flowing the whole width of the parish and largely through woodland margins, and partly following the footpath of the abandoned track of the old railway line north from Fencote Abbey (farm).

At the extreme south of the parish flows a 1,500 yards (1,000 m) stream with woodland margins, joining the Humber Brook at the west.

[22] Hatfield and Newhampton is represent in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

In 1974 Hatfield and Newhampton, as 'Hatfield', became part of the now defunct Leominster District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

For secondary education the parish falls within the catchment area of Earl Mortimer College at Leominster, 3.5 miles (6 km) to the west.

At the north-west edge of the parish is an internet-based outdoor country apparel company, and at the eastern edge at Bilfield a farm-based secure self-storage facility at which is a mobile phone telecommunications mast.The nearest community or village hall is at Pudleston, less than 1.5 miles (2 km) north-west, and Bredenbury, 2 miles (3 km) to the south-east.

[21][23][34][35][36] Bus stops for the Leominster to Ledbury route are on the A44 Worcester Road, 1 mile (2 km) to the south from Hatfield.

[37] The closest rail connections are at Leominster railway station, 5 miles (8 km) to the west, on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line which also serves Hereford railway station, 13 miles (20 km) to the south, with further connections to Oxford on the Cotswold Line, and to Birmingham provided by West Midlands Trains.

[41] Lower Nicholson Farmhouse (listed 22 August 1996), dates at least to the 17th century, and is of three bays, two storeys, and timber-framed with stone tile roofs.

[43][44][45] The 154 miles (248 km) Herefordshire Trail runs through the parish, locally east to west from Pudleston to Thornbury.